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1. These Entities Were Proven to Exist in Their Namesake's “Pulse Fall 2008 ACF-Format Set #2 Round 14 Tossups 1. These entities were proven to exist in their namesake’s “pulse chase” experiment. Their creation depends on specialized flap endonucleases and RNAse H (R-N-aze H), which remove a primer and pave the way for DNA polymerase omega. These occur in the five-prime to three-prime direction on the lagging strand, and are linked by DNA ligase. For 10 points, name these short segments of DNA created during DNA replication, named for a Japanese scientist. ANSWER: Okazaki fragment s [prompt on partial answer] 2. This woman’s son Parthenopeus was killed by Periclymenus in the Seven Against Thebes campaign. She was injured at Colchis and healed by Medea, and she was transformed into a lion after making love in one of Zeus’s temples. After one feat, she was insulted by Iphicles and Eurypylus and was the subject of Toxeus and Plexippus’ fury, but all four were killed by Meleager. Enthralled by golden apples, she lost a footrace to Hippomenes, who courted her. For 10 points, name this Greek huntress who drew the first blood of the Calydonian Boar. ANSWER: Atalanta 3. One member of this ethnicity heads to Dr. Albert’s house to escape punishment for spying for Germany in “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Mack bargains with a member of this ethnicity, who owns the grocery store in Cannery Row . One work featuring members of this ethnicity discusses the career of Brave Orchid, while another begins as a girl fills a vacancy at the mah-jongg table. The focus of the novels The Woman Warrior and The Joy Luck Club , for 10 points, name this ethnicity shared by the characters in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms . ANSWER: Chinese [or equivalents] 4. He wrote the Consecration of the House Overture for the reopening of the Theater in der Josefstadt. He wrote the paired overtures King Steven and The Ruins of Athens , and the third symphony by this composer innovatively contains a funeral march as its second movement. His last symphony features a fourth movement based on a Friedrich Schiller work. For 10 points, name this composer of nine symphonies, the third of which is nicknamed “Eroica,” and the last of which contains the “Ode to Joy.” ANSWER: Ludvig van Beethoven 5. The victorious side in this battle evaded the fleet of the Viscount Lovell and landed at Milford Haven en route to Leicester. The only notable loss for the winning side in this battle was the standard bearer William Brandon, and John Howard died in the initial skirmish. Lord Stanley and Henry Percy failed to aid the losing side here, and the victor of this battle was Henry Tudor, who went on to become Henry VII. For 10 points, name this battle of the Wars of the Roses in which Richard III met his end. ANSWER: Bosworth Field Fall 2008 ACF-Format Set #2 Round 14 Page 1 of 11 © 2008 HSAPQ These questions will not be licensed to any future tournament and may henceforth be used for practice purposes only. It is prohibited to use these questions for any purpose of financial gain or to remove the attribution of these questions to HSAPQ. 6. Julian Barnes wrote a novel named for this man's parrot. In one of this author's novels, Matho is tortured and executed after sleeping with the daughter of Hamilcar Barca. In another, Charles Deslauriers attempts to seduce Madame Arnaux away from Frédéric Moreau. In addition to Salammbo and A Sentimental Education , this author wrote a novel about a woman who has an affair with Leon Dupuis in Yonville after marrying a doctor named Charles. For 10 points, name this nineteenth-century French author of Madame Bovary . ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert 7. One of this man’s works contains a “Lament” that begins “let me die.” In addition to L’Arianna , this composer wrote an opera in which Penelope sings “De misera regina,” The Return of Ulysses to his Country . Ottone is a character in another of his works, which features Seneca singing “Solitudine amata,” while in another of his operas, the title character sings the “rose of heaven” aria after marrying Eurydice. For 10 points, name this composer of The Coronation of Poppea and Orfeo . ANSWER: Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi 8. It was instigated by the government's decision to give preferential treatment to Keokuk, a man who provided warning to a United States agent at Rock Island. Governor John Reynolds's call to the state militia was followed by the dispatch of federal troops, and the man most associated with it wrote the Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak . That man was ultimately sent to Fortress Monroe as a prisoner. The main battle in this war was the massacre at the Bad Axe River. For 10 points, name this 1832 conflict in which the U.S. fought the namesake Sauk and Fox Indian leader in Illinois. ANSWER: Black Hawk ’s War 9. A clerk in this book, Mr. Guest, reveals the similarity between the handwriting of two characters. It begins with Mr. Enfield recounting an incident about a man who ran over a young girl. In this novella, Dr. Lanyon dies of shock after seeing one of the title characters, who kills Sir Danvers Carew. In its final sections, Mr. Utterson reads a letter from the first title character describing how he needed increasingly larger doses of a potion to transform back to his old self. For 10 points, name this novella about a scientist with a split personality, by Robert Louis Stevenson. ANSWER: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10. This man was an executive producer on the two Goldie and the Boxer TV movies, in which he also played the title heavyweight champion, and he also portrayed building manager Harry Jernigan in The Towering Inferno and Frank Drebin’s colleague Nordberg in three Naked Gun movies. He may be better known for events that occurred in the Brentwood neighborhood in 1994, followed by a low-speed chase, and for a 2007 incident at the Palace Station in Las Vegas. For 10 points, name this former USC and Buffalo Bills star, convicted of robbery in 2008. ANSWER: Orenthal James Simpson 11. The proportionality between the rate of transport of a component in this type of system and that component’s gradient rate of transport is given by the austausch coefficient. During this process, the velocity difference is proportional to the distance to the one-third power, according to Kolmogorov. The statistical explanations for it arise because the solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations are unstable past a certain point, generally above a Reynolds number of four thousand. For 10 points, name this chaotic flow, contrasted with laminar flow. ANSWER: turbulent flow [or turbulence ] Fall 2008 ACF-Format Set #2 Round 14 Page 2 of 11 © 2008 HSAPQ These questions will not be licensed to any future tournament and may henceforth be used for practice purposes only. It is prohibited to use these questions for any purpose of financial gain or to remove the attribution of these questions to HSAPQ. 12. One fleeting character in this work is an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out as he yells “To the darling, the sweet darling!” The protagonist of this work wrote the work The Wretched Man and a prose epic about Frederick the Great. That protagonist is sickened by the smell of disinfectant and later becomes sick when he eats some bad strawberries. The title event occurs when the protagonist is observing the Polish boy he loves, Tadzio. For 10 points, name this novel about Gustav van Aschenbach’s demise in an Italian city. ANSWER: Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig ] 13. The argument of pericenter figures in the Kozai mechanism, which explains why this entity is protected from encounters with a certain other body. Deviation in its temperature are explained by the anti-greenhouse effect. Albedos of 0.04 to 0.35 are assumed for two of its satellites, Nix and Hydra. A short-term reduction in gravity was jokingly attributed to Jupiter and this entity, which is the largest distinct object in the scattered disc subregion of the Kuiper belt. Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, for 10 points, name this dwarf planet that was reclassified in 2006. ANSWER: Pluto 14. He negotiated the Convention of Gastein after a brief war with Denmark that was partially used to gain support for an army bill. He negotiated the “Three Emperor’s League” with Austria and Russia, and called a conference to rework the treaty of San Stefano, reducing Russia’s influence in Bulgaria. He contested with the Church in the “Kulturkampf,” and tailored a message that resulted in a war concluding with the battle of Sedan, the Ems dispatch. For 10 points, name this man who called Congresses and Conferences in Berlin as imperial chancellor of Germany. ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck [or Otto Eduard Leopold, Furst von Bismarck , Graf von Bismarck- Schonhausen, Herzog von Lauenburg] 15. In one work by this artist, a cat looks up from the floor and several enormous bats and owls flit around a man with his head on a desk. In addition to The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters , he showed men dueling with cudgels and Saturn devouring his children in his series of “black paintings.” He created two companion pieces of a woman with her arms behind her head, the Clothed Maja and the Naked Maja , as well as a painting of faceless Napoleonic soldiers killing Spanish patriots.
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